LayerZero kept 52,161 storage slots for one block
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I expected Ethereum's shortest-lived storage to be token-account churn: balances created, spent, and gone. USDC and USDT do show up, but neither contract was first. LayerZero's ReceiveUln302 created 52,161 storage slots and deleted them in the next execution block.
Its EndpointV2 added another 24,163. Together, those two contracts made 76,324 of Ethereum's 212,618 adjacent-block storage lifecycles, or 35.90%, across 14 complete days. This was not random garbage. It was a cross-chain message waiting room being filled, checked, moved, and cleared.